SOCCER PLAYER

Tom Finney

1922 - 2014

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Sir Thomas Finney (5 April 1922 – 14 February 2014) was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as a winger or centre forward for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest ever players. He was noted for his loyalty to Preston, for whom he made 433 Football League and 39 FA Cup appearances, scoring a total of 210 goals. He played for England 76 times, scoring 30 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tom Finney is the 1,748th most popular soccer player (down from 1,626th in 2019), the 2,918th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,578th in 2019) and the 114th most popular British Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Tom Finney ranks 1,748 out of 21,273. Before him are Alex, Barry Hulshoff, Juan Antonio Pizzi, Mario Pizziolo, Eder, and Hakim Ziyech. After him are Dani Olmo, Gary Stevens, Fergus Suter, Giovanni Galli, Antonio Juliano, and Aldo Boffi.

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Among people born in 1922, Tom Finney ranks 227. Before him are Ester Mägi, Étienne Gailly, Gene Amdahl, Vladimir Etush, Micheline Ostermeyer, and Sabino Barinaga. After him are Ja'afar of Negeri Sembilan, Pio Laghi, Lennart Nilsson, Dorothy Dandridge, Chairil Anwar, and Joseph Mermans. Among people deceased in 2014, Tom Finney ranks 222. Before him are Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Lilli Carati, Martha Hyer, Julian Rotter, Gustavo Cerati, and Igor Rodionov. After him are Valentin Mankin, Peret, René Llense, Marilyn Burns, Francesco Marchisano, and Yuri Lyubimov.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Tom Finney ranks 2,919 out of 8,785. Before him are John Michael Wright (1617), Marianne North (1830), James Young Simpson (1811), John Shrapnel (1942), Rupert Brooke (1887), and Ernest Renshaw (1861). After him are Rutherford Alcock (1809), Gary Stevens (1963), Charles Walter De Vis (1829), Fergus Suter (1857), Ian Dury (1942), and Patrick Manson (1844).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In United Kingdom

Among soccer players born in United Kingdom, Tom Finney ranks 114. Before him are John Terry (1980), Peter Thompson (1942), Ebenezer Cobb Morley (1831), Dennis Viollet (1933), Pat Jennings (1945), and Mark Jones (1933). After him are Gary Stevens (1963), Fergus Suter (1857), Neil Young (1944), David Johnson (1951), Martin Peters (1943), and Eddie Gray (1948).

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